Today’s bits: Frugality drives innovation; Sacrifice now, win later

Money & Investing

Women are better at investing than men, study says – When it comes to investing success, women did better than men last year. Female investors earned higher returns and saved more of their pay to fund retirement accounts than men, even though most women didn’t think they would, according to a recently …

How can the Millennial generation start investing?– An adjunct professor at Webster University will offer a an MBA financial class. The course will be built around the principles laid out in his book Rich as a King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Five Money Tips for Graduates– When it comes to debt, student loans and credit cards can be detrimental to the financial success of young adults. The devastating mistakes students make in college can haunt them for years and keep them from stepping into the next phase of life with …

The Best Money Advice When You Don’t Have Any Money – Getting advice about what to do with your money, when you don’t actually have very much, might be fun — like playing a game of Monopoly. On the other hand, it could also feel soul-wrenching, like watching an episode of Black Mirror that hits too close …

You’ll soon be able to send money with Google Assistant – You can say something like “Send $50 to Paul Miller,” and Google Assistant will confirm before it fires off the money — using your fingerprint if you’re on Android. Merchants can also get paid through Assistant this way — in Google’s demo at I/O they …

Jobs

6 cities where recent grads can get a job without blowing their whole paycheck on rent – The study first identified popular jobs for young grads, based on US Census Bureau data regarding 22- to 27-year-olds with a bachelor’s degree. Next, Indeed scoured all of its March 2017 job listings for such occupations, coming up with the share of job postings in each area in occupations where the share of college grads is at least twice as high as the national average.

Creating a Retirement Plan: Ideas to Help Get You Started – An often-overlooked area of retirement planning is inflation. In 1990, the cost of a first-class postage stamp was 25 cents; today it has almost doubled to 49 cents. If you need $5,000 a month to meet your current spending needs, how much will you need …